You’re fucking with my pituitary gland, I think. I like how you used the shitty Substack text narrator that sounds like Lex Fridman for a couple of overdubs. The thing usually mispronounces most of what I write.
Luddite or not, everyone deeply considering all this inevitably arrives at the "what happens when no one can buy anything" destination. To me feels like Blomkamp's Elysium is the most likely portrait of what this is gonna look like, although maybe Idiocracy just continues increasing its predictive power and the outcome is something incomprehensibly way more stupid. It's a tough call.
I initially thought this might be the case also, but I think it's just the sheer cartoonish stupidity of the entire society that dulls the actual brutality in that movie ("Monday Night Rehabilitation", slot machine healthcare, burger vending machine, etc). Nobody cares about anything but the hyper-consumerism and their aura/celebrity. The story frames it as a result of being stupid, which looks harmless on the surface if one takes that to mean there is less culpability assigned to dumbasses for their actions, but it's still a horribly selfish, exploited, and brutal society with barely if any more expressions of kindness/caring than that of Elysium. Elysium just looks more deliberately evil without the stupidity, but I think maybe they are closer to parity.
meh, I dunno if you should bother unless you are desperate for something
as you said, the future is here, and while they might offer something for future forecasting, I think both of these movies' greater value lies in critiquing/satirizing current conditions than looking into the future
I agree, though, the Elysium future is probably closest to what it will look like structurally. Blomkamp say this kind of structure in South Africa already. So the future is already here.
You’re fucking with my pituitary gland, I think. I like how you used the shitty Substack text narrator that sounds like Lex Fridman for a couple of overdubs. The thing usually mispronounces most of what I write.
Nice work, love the narrator's yokelly lilt. Could be Unca Jesse's brother: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfS3iXfHsI
Luddite or not, everyone deeply considering all this inevitably arrives at the "what happens when no one can buy anything" destination. To me feels like Blomkamp's Elysium is the most likely portrait of what this is gonna look like, although maybe Idiocracy just continues increasing its predictive power and the outcome is something incomprehensibly way more stupid. It's a tough call.
Idiocracy is too kind, too caring.
I initially thought this might be the case also, but I think it's just the sheer cartoonish stupidity of the entire society that dulls the actual brutality in that movie ("Monday Night Rehabilitation", slot machine healthcare, burger vending machine, etc). Nobody cares about anything but the hyper-consumerism and their aura/celebrity. The story frames it as a result of being stupid, which looks harmless on the surface if one takes that to mean there is less culpability assigned to dumbasses for their actions, but it's still a horribly selfish, exploited, and brutal society with barely if any more expressions of kindness/caring than that of Elysium. Elysium just looks more deliberately evil without the stupidity, but I think maybe they are closer to parity.
Ha. Should rewatch. I get wha you mean.
meh, I dunno if you should bother unless you are desperate for something
as you said, the future is here, and while they might offer something for future forecasting, I think both of these movies' greater value lies in critiquing/satirizing current conditions than looking into the future
I agree, though, the Elysium future is probably closest to what it will look like structurally. Blomkamp say this kind of structure in South Africa already. So the future is already here.